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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623721 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Home Scar: from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky Author: Kathleen Macmahon Narrator: Beau Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky 'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.' 'Wait, they leave the rock?' 'Of course. How else would they survive? On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past. When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer, the last before their mother died. But their journey uncovers memories of a far less happy summer - one that had tragic consequences. Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake, Cassie and Christo are forced to face their past and - ready or not - to deal with the messy tangle of parental love and neglect that shaped them. The Home Scar is a luminous and precise story about the inheritance of loss and the possibility of finally making peace with it. Praise for Nothing But Blue Sky 'A piece of perfection . . . the best book I've read all year' Irish Examiner 'Touching and enthralling' Sunday Times 'What a beautiful novel . . . Elegant, understated, subtly powerful and rings so perfectly true' Donal Ryan ©2023 Kathleen MacMahon (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Nemesis: A Novel Author: Charmaine Craig Narrator: Charmaine Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples. Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more—but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship. While Tessa’s husband, Milton, enjoys Charlie’s company on his visits to the East Coast, Charlie’s mixed-race Asian wife, Wah, is a different case, and she proves to be both adversary and conundrum to Tessa. Wah’s traditional femininity and subservience to her husband strike Tessa as weaknesses, and she scoffs at the sacrifices Wah makes as adoptive mother to a Burmese girl, Htet, once homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. But Wah has a kind of power too, especially over Charlie, and the conflict between the two women leads to Tessa’s martini-fueled declaration that Wah is “an insult to womankind.” As Tessa is forced to deal with the consequences of her outburst and considers how much she is limited by her own perceptions, she wonders if Wah is really as weak as she has seemed, or if she might have a different kind of strength altogether. An exercise in empathy, an exploration of betrayal, and a charged story of the thrill of a shared connection—and the perils of feminine rivalry—My Nemesis is a brilliantly dramatic and captivating story from a hugely talented writer whose portrayals are always gracefully phrased and keenly observed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snowy Mountains Promise Series: #3 of A Bundilla Novel Author: Alissa Callen Narrator: Rebecca Macauley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A town scandal. A kelpie chaperone. A winter ball. The bush telegraph has never had so much to talk about... A delightfully charming rural story about love and healing from bestselling Australian author Alissa Callen. Hettie Burbrook is the first to admit she's happiest when flying solo through the outback skies. After her hobby of photographing farmers lands her a book deal, it provides the ideal cover story to visit small-town Bundilla. But every photograph brings her closer to uncovering the answers behind why she is really in the mountains... Deer farmer Taite Lancaster is as strong as the tempered steel he welds into lifelike animal sculptures. Unlike his father, he will never allow feelings to break him. But when the old schoolfriend of his twin sister lands on the airstrip of their high-country station, he knows he's in trouble. Hettie is the one woman he can't forget. While they're both determined to keep to themselves, between dog races, a ute muster and a winter ball, Hettie and Taite are forced to face how much they need each other. And when a long-buried scandal erupts into the present, relationships and lives are threatened. Can a man who locks away his emotions reveal his vulnerability before the mountain snow melts? And can a woman intent on righting a decades-old tragedy listen to her heart before history repeats itself? PRAISE FOR ALISSA CALLEN: 'Callen is no stranger to rural life, and it shows in her fiction. Her portrayal of small-town life and the surrounding bush was richly depicted and vividly imagined.' - Better Reading 'Alissa Callen writes such heartwarming, feel-good stories and creates the most appealing communities ... It was wonderful to return to Bundilla and some familiar faces.' - 1girl2manybooks 'A moving story with a touching romance weaving its way around and through the many issues facing a rural community.' - The Burgeoning Bookshelf

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forbidden Notebook: A Novel Author: Alba De Céspedes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba de Céspedes, whose work inspired contemporary writers like Elena Ferrante In this modern translation by acclaimed Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein, The Forbidden Notebook centers the inner life of a dissatisfied housewife living in postwar Rome. Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life—until she begins to jot down her thoughts and feelings in a little black book she keeps hidden in a closet. This new secret activity leads her to scrutinize herself and her life more closely, and she soon realizes that her individuality is being stifled by her devotion and sense of duty toward her husband, daughter, and son. As the conflicts between parents and children, husband and wife, and friends and lovers intensify, what goes on behind the Cossatis’ façade of middle-class respectability gradually comes to light, tearing the family’s fragile fabric apart. An exquisitely crafted portrayal of domestic life, The Forbidden Notebook recognizes the universality of human aspirations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eve's Rib Author: C.S. O'cinneide Narrator: Rachel Perry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil. The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result. After Abbey's younger brother dies in a fall, Eve fears the worst about her daughter. Five years later, she still battles her guilt and grief over what happened the day she lost her son. Her husband, Richard, doesn't understand. He doesn't know the truth about Abbey; and besides, he has secrets of his own to keep. But when terrible things begin to happen to those who get in Abbey's way, Eve must overcome her own pain and loss and find the strength to deal with what she fears most—a teenage daughter she can no longer control and a past that could come back to haunt her in the most monstrous of ways.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Music Author: An Yu Narrator: Vera Chok Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. When she married, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels start to show up on the doorstep and Song Yan’s dreams become troubling and claustrophobic. Striking out alone through the winter city, she finds herself pulled into the ancient hutongs to confront the source of her unease. In a still, silent room in a timeless house, can she find the notes she needs to make sense of all the pain and beauty in her life?Evocative, magical and endlessly surprising, Ghost Music is a captivating journey through memory, expression and self-discovery towards the shimmer of new beginnings.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Confirmed Rake Series: #2 of The Donovans Series Author: Martha Keyes Narrator: Ella Lynch, Rupert Degas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Rebecca Russell’s brother marries, she finally has the opportunity she has been dreaming of: to leave the seclusion of her reclusive grandfather’s home and enter into society. But when her inexperience has her making blunders and courting embarrassment, help comes from an unexpected source: the brooding, irritable brother of her chaperone. Valentine Donovan is a rake, mountains of gaming debt and all. With his only hope for financial relief tied up in the Admiralty Court, he must temporarily rely on his father’s charity—and all the strings attached to it. His father demands Valentine show evidence that he is changing his ways, so when the engaging but naïve young woman living with his sister presents a plan, he can’t refuse the opportunity to fulfill some of his father’s requirements, albeit reluctantly. But Valentine is unprepared for Rebecca’s guileless optimism and how impossible he finds it to say no to her increasingly onerous requests—requests that put both their hearts and reputations in danger. A Confirmed Rake is the second in Martha Keyes's The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pleasantly Pursued Series: #2 of Bradwell Brothers Author: Kasey Stockton Narrator: Oliver Hunt, Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 3, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Thea I would do nearly anything to avoid the lecherous advances of an eager earl, including running away from my finishing school and finding employment under a false name. The work turned out to be harder than I expected, however, and the prospect of returning to a life of comfort and a significant reduction of welts on my hands and shadows beneath my eyes just might be a temptation I’m too weary to refuse. The problem? The invitation comes from Benedict, the ultimate tormentor of my youth and brief object of my infatuation—the latter of which he can never find out. Benedict When I found Thea working in the belly of a grand house and did my best to convince her to return home with me where my mother awaited her, I did not expect her to agree. Our years of quarreling had solidified the woman as my enemy, and traveling alone together was a prospect that both terrified and intrigued me. Thea had only been my friend for a brief time years ago, and I do not know why she turned us against one another. But now that we’re forced together again, I cannot help but renew my determination to find out—because a woman who can hate with such fire is bound to love with the same fervor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe in Another Life Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 12 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; now with a bonus conversation with Julia Whelan and Taylor Jenkins Reid, recorded exclusively for this edition. At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby’s guestroom. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan. Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she’s ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan? In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her. As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: Is anything meant to be? How much in our life is determined by chance? And perhaps, most compellingly: Is there such a thing as a soul mate? Hannah believes there is. And, in both worlds, she believes she’s found him.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Summer Sister Author: Rachel Cullen Narrator: Lexi Mae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Summer sisters don't have much in common other than shared DNA. But when their father's untimely death reveals an earth-shattering secret, everything they thought they knew about their family—and their future—changes overnight. Jen spent her childhood feeling like the ugly duckling, while Lynn longed to be appreciated for something other than her looks. Jen still hasn't forgiven Lynn for fleeing to California to follow her dreams, leaving Jen to tend to their father and the family insurance business. Meanwhile, Lynn is living in exile in Los Angeles, forced to endure the pain of her humiliating divorce in silence because she is too ashamed to reveal her mistakes. As the youngest of the trio, Courtney's life is also turned upside down due to her father's death, only for an entirely different reason; Courtney didn't even know he existed until after he was gone. Now she has to figure out what life looks like with two older sisters who can't stand each other while attempting to piece together her fractured youth. Only time will tell if the bonds of sisterhood are strong enough to mend past transgressions or if the sisters, and their secrets, will destroy the Summer family forever.